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<!--begin 1970799-0-1-->  <item>    <title><![CDATA[Explorers in quest to find sources of 3 major rivers]]></title>    <link>http://www.china.org.cn/environment/news/2008-09/06/content_16400280.htm</link>      <description><![CDATA[China launched an expedition on Saturday that aims to find the sources of the country's three major rivers. The 40-member team will spend about 45 days and cover 8,000 km seeking the sources of the Yangtze River -- the country's longest -- the Yellow River and the Lancang River, all of which originate in plateau in the southern part of Qinghai Province.]]></description>      <Author>李京荣</Author>    <category>News</category>      <pubDate>2008-09-06 16:24:24 +0800</pubDate>    </item>  <item>    <title><![CDATA[Report: 20% Guangdong shore polluted by sewage]]></title>    <link>http://www.china.org.cn/environment/news/2008-09/06/content_16400176.htm</link>      <description><![CDATA[About one-fifth of the coastal waters near south China's Guangdong Province are polluted by industrial and domestic sewage, a government report said.]]></description>      <Author>陈琳</Author>    <category>News</category>      <pubDate>2008-09-06 15:53:41 +0800</pubDate>    </item>  <item>    <title><![CDATA[Report finds 20% Guangdong shore polluted by sewage]]></title>    <link>http://www.china.org.cn/environment/report_review/2008-09/06/content_16400230.htm</link>      <description><![CDATA[About one-fifth of the coastal waters near south China's Guangdong Province are polluted by industrial and domestic sewage, a government report said.]]></description>      <Author>陈琳</Author>    <category>Report  Review</category>      <pubDate>2008-09-06 15:53:41 +0800</pubDate>    </item>  <item>    <title><![CDATA[Endangered monkey population doubles in Guizhou]]></title>    <link>http://www.china.org.cn/environment/news/2008-09/06/content_16399962.htm</link>      <description><![CDATA[The number of wild gray snub-nosed monkeys, an endangered species only found in southwest China's Guizhou Province, has more than doubled to about 850 over the past three decades.]]></description>      <Author>李京荣</Author>    <category>News</category>      <pubDate>2008-09-06 15:07:56 +0800</pubDate>    </item>  <item>    <title><![CDATA[Two natural disaster monitoring satellites launched]]></title>    <link>http://www.china.org.cn/environment/news/2008-09/06/content_16399296.htm</link>      <description><![CDATA[China launched two satellites for monitoring ecological environment and natural disasters at around 11:25 AM on Saturday.]]></description>      <Author>李京荣</Author>    <category>News</category>      <pubDate>2008-09-06 12:25:11 +0800</pubDate>    </item>  <item>    <title><![CDATA[Beijing official apologizes to public for bad odors from dump]]></title>    <link>http://www.china.org.cn/environment/news/2008-09/05/content_16396313.htm</link>      <description><![CDATA[An official in eastern Beijing apologized to the public on Thursday for a bad-smelling garbage dump that's annoying nearby residents and promised to mitigate the odor in 20 days.]]></description>      <Author>李京荣</Author>    <category>News</category>      <pubDate>2008-09-05 16:48:39 +0800</pubDate>    </item>  <item>    <title><![CDATA[Massive floating shelf in the Arctic of climate change]]></title>    <link>http://www.china.org.cn/environment/features_analyses/2008-09/05/content_16395672.htm</link>      <description><![CDATA[In the latest sign of the accelerating climate change, a huge ice shelf has broken away in Canada's northern Arctic, and the remaining shelves have shrunk at a "massive and disturbing" rate.]]></description>      <Author>李京荣</Author>    <category>Features  Analyses</category>      <pubDate>2008-09-05 15:21:02 +0800</pubDate>    </item>  <item>    <title><![CDATA[Guizhou lake charms with blazing color, geologic wonder]]></title>    <link>http://www.china.org.cn/environment/news/2008-09/05/content_16395488.htm</link>      <description><![CDATA[Red Maple Lake in Guizhou Province just an hour's drive from the capital Guiyang has become increasingly popular for tourists to enjoy its dramatic landscape and rich ethnic cultures.]]></description>      <Author>李京荣</Author>    <category>News</category>      <pubDate>2008-09-05 15:10:00 +0800</pubDate>    </item>  <item>    <title><![CDATA[Freak hailstorm turns part of tropical Kenya white]]></title>    <link>http://www.china.org.cn/environment/pics/2008-09/05/content_16394797.htm</link>      <description><![CDATA[
A boy holds a block of ice after heavy hailstorms hit a deforested hillside in Gikingi Village in Nyahururu town, some 220 kilometers&#160;from Nairobi, on September 3.
]]></description>      <Author>李京荣</Author>    <category>In Pictures</category>      <pubDate>2008-09-05 15:00:16 +0800</pubDate>    </item>  <item>    <title><![CDATA[Taipei zoo hopes to welcome pandas in November]]></title>    <link>http://www.china.org.cn/environment/news/2008-09/05/content_16392982.htm</link>      <description><![CDATA[Officials at Taiwan's biggest zoo said Wednesday they hoped to welcome a pair of giant pandas from the Chinese mainland as early as November, a move expected to draw millions of tourists.]]></description>      <Author>李京荣</Author>    <category>News</category>      <pubDate>2008-09-05 10:46:46 +0800</pubDate>    </item>  <item>    <title><![CDATA[Yangtze River marker lights to go solar]]></title>    <link>http://www.china.org.cn/environment/news/2008-09/05/content_16392548.htm</link>      <description><![CDATA[The Yangtze River waterway administration has announced that it will use solar power for the more than 5,700 marker lights along China's busiest waterway.]]></description>      <Author>李京荣</Author>    <category>News</category>      <pubDate>2008-09-05 10:09:01 +0800</pubDate>    </item>  <item>    <title><![CDATA[More control over exporting livestock, poultry genetic resources]]></title>    <link>http://www.china.org.cn/environment/policies_announcements/2008-09/05/content_16392376.htm</link>      <description><![CDATA[China has moved to tighten the control over the export of genetic resources of livestock and poultry with the promulgation of a new ordinance that will take effect on October 1.]]></description>      <Author>李京荣</Author>    <category>Policies and Announcements</category>      <pubDate>2008-09-05 09:56:32 +0800</pubDate>    </item>  <item>    <title><![CDATA[Kunming int'l flower and agricultural exposition]]></title>    <link>http://www.china.org.cn/environment/pics/2008-09/05/content_16392024.htm</link>      <description><![CDATA[
The pet boars exhibit in the 12th Kunming International Flower Exhibition and the 4th Kunming International Agricultural Exposition held in Kunming International Convention &#38; Exhibition Center on Sept. 3.
]]></description>      <Author>李京荣</Author>    <category>In Pictures</category>      <pubDate>2008-09-05 09:27:57 +0800</pubDate>    </item>  <item>    <title><![CDATA[Quality problems possible in school buildings: official]]></title>    <link>http://www.china.org.cn/environment/report_review/2008-09/04/content_16389784.htm</link>      <description><![CDATA[There were "quality problems" with some school buildings damaged during the catastrophic earthquakes in southwest China's Sichuan Province on May 12, an official said on Thursday.]]></description>      <Author>李京荣</Author>    <category>Report  Review</category>      <pubDate>2008-09-04 16:56:26 +0800</pubDate>    </item>  <item>    <title><![CDATA[Severe drought hits NW Chinese city]]></title>    <link>http://www.china.org.cn/environment/pics/2008-09/04/content_16388085.htm</link>      <description><![CDATA[Tourists walk on the dry riverbed at Baiyanghe Canyon scenic area in Kalamay, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, on Sept. 2. The most severe drought in ten years currently threatens the city.]]></description>      <Author>李京荣</Author>    <category>In Pictures</category>      <pubDate>2008-09-04 15:08:40 +0800</pubDate>    </item>  <item>    <title><![CDATA[First inland Antarctica station to be built within 2 years]]></title>    <link>http://www.china.org.cn/environment/news/2008-09/04/content_16386779.htm</link>      <description><![CDATA[China will set up a new observatory station in Antarctica at the region's highest peak within two years, Wu Jinyou, party secretary with the Polar Research Institute of China, said during a visit on Wednesday to the northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region to promote environmental protection.]]></description>      <Author>李京荣</Author>    <category>News</category>      <pubDate>2008-09-04 11:19:05 +0800</pubDate>    </item>  <item>    <title><![CDATA[Over 87,000 feared dead in May 12 earthquake]]></title>    <link>http://www.china.org.cn/environment/news/2008-09/04/content_16386733.htm</link>      <description><![CDATA[It is feared the death toll in the 8.0-magnitude earthquake centered in Wenchuan County on May 12 in the southwestern Province of Sichuan will top 87,000, an expert said in Beijing on Thursday.]]></description>      <Author>李京荣</Author>    <category>News</category>      <pubDate>2008-09-04 11:12:00 +0800</pubDate>    </item>  <item>    <title><![CDATA['Addicted' elephant heads home after 3-year detox]]></title>    <link>http://www.china.org.cn/environment/news/2008-09/04/content_16386466.htm</link>      <description><![CDATA[An Asian elephant who became addicted to drugs after eating a banana smeared with heroin is headed back to Kunming after a three-year detoxification program in China's southernmost Hainan Province.]]></description>      <Author>李京荣</Author>    <category>News</category>      <pubDate>2008-09-04 10:46:31 +0800</pubDate>    </item>  <item>    <title><![CDATA['Addicted' elephant heads back to Kunming after cure]]></title>    <link>http://www.china.org.cn/environment/pics/2008-09/04/content_16386641.htm</link>      <description><![CDATA[An Asian elephant who became addicted to drugs after eating a banana smeared with heroin is headed back to Kunming after a three-year detoxification program in south China's Hainan Province.]]></description>      <Author>李京荣</Author>    <category>In Pictures</category>      <pubDate>2008-09-04 10:46:31 +0800</pubDate>    </item>  <item>    <title><![CDATA[Race against winter in quake zone]]></title>    <link>http://www.china.org.cn/environment/news/2008-09/04/content_16386430.htm</link>      <description><![CDATA[The country is racing against time to rebuild homes and set up temporary shelters for many of the 1.2 million people displaced by the Panzhihua earthquake.]]></description>      <Author>李京荣</Author>    <category>News</category>      <pubDate>2008-09-04 10:42:10 +0800</pubDate>    </item>  <item>    <title><![CDATA[China, Singapore to base Tianjin eco-city on sustainable development]]></title>    <link>http://www.china.org.cn/environment/news/2008-09/04/content_16386140.htm</link>      <description><![CDATA[China and Singapore on Wednesday pledged a joint effort to build an eco-city of Tianjin into an environmentally-friendly model of sustainable development.]]></description>      <Author>李京荣</Author>    <category>News</category>      <pubDate>2008-09-04 10:16:08 +0800</pubDate>    </item>  <item>    <title><![CDATA[Tallest meteorological tower to be in use soon]]></title>    <link>http://www.china.org.cn/environment/news/2008-09/04/content_16385204.htm</link>      <description><![CDATA[China's tallest meteorological tower, located in Jiayuguan city in northwest China's Gansu Province with a height of 94.94 meters, will be in use on Sept. 10, China Foto Press reports.]]></description>      <Author>李京荣</Author>    <category>News</category>      <pubDate>2008-09-04 09:26:40 +0800</pubDate>    </item>  <item>    <title><![CDATA[19-square-mile ice sheet breaks loose in Canada]]></title>    <link>http://www.china.org.cn/environment/pics/2008-09/04/content_16385081.htm</link>      <description><![CDATA[A chunk of ice shelf nearly the size of Manhattan has broken away from Ellesmere Island in Canada's northern Arctic, another dramatic indication of how warmer temperatures are changing the polar frontier.]]></description>      <Author>李京荣</Author>    <category>In Pictures</category>      <pubDate>2008-09-04 09:19:27 +0800</pubDate>    </item>  <item>    <title><![CDATA[Natural disaster monitoring satellites to be launched]]></title>    <link>http://www.china.org.cn/environment/news/2008-09/04/content_16384822.htm</link>      <description><![CDATA[China plans to launch two satellites for monitoring ecological environment and natural disasters on Friday from the country's north Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, sources from the center said Wednesday.]]></description>      <Author>李京荣</Author>    <category>News</category>      <pubDate>2008-09-04 08:59:39 +0800</pubDate>    </item>  <item>    <title><![CDATA[Valuable lessons learnt in Nankunshan]]></title>    <link>http://www.china.org.cn/environment/opinions/2008-09/04/content_16384746.htm</link>      <description><![CDATA[China has been basking in the glory and victory of the 2008 Olympic Games, which has demonstrated the nation's economic strengths and capabilities.]]></description>      <Author>李京荣</Author>    <category>Opinions</category>      <pubDate>2008-09-04 08:55:04 +0800</pubDate>    </item>  <item>    <title><![CDATA[Clean energy market brings new investors]]></title>    <link>http://www.china.org.cn/environment/news/2008-09/04/content_16384644.htm</link>      <description><![CDATA[US entrepreneur Tom Watson doesn't regret not investing in China over the past three decades. "Time was not on our side then," said Watson, whose company sells air filtration systems.]]></description>      <Author>李京荣</Author>    <category>News</category>      <pubDate>2008-09-04 08:48:12 +0800</pubDate>    </item>  <item>    <title><![CDATA[Eco pig farms wave of future]]></title>    <link>http://www.china.org.cn/environment/health_green_living/2008-09/03/content_16382972.htm</link>      <description><![CDATA[At China's largest eco-friendly pig-raising farm, there is no smell and no pig manure underfoot. The 200 million yuan facility in Fengxian county, Jiangsu province, has more than 6,000 organically bred pigs.]]></description>      <Author>李京荣</Author>    <category>Health  Green Living</category>      <pubDate>2008-09-03 16:36:37 +0800</pubDate>    </item>  <item>    <title><![CDATA[Autos: Eco-cars to get policy support]]></title>    <link>http://www.china.org.cn/environment/policies_announcements/2008-09/03/content_16382920.htm</link>      <description><![CDATA[Favorable policies that support the development of new energy vehicles are expected to come out this year, yesterday's<EM>China Business News</EM>quoted an insider from the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers as saying.]]></description>      <Author>李京荣</Author>    <category>Policies and Announcements</category>      <pubDate>2008-09-03 16:32:31 +0800</pubDate>    </item>  <item>    <title><![CDATA[Rising seawaters lapping at windowsills on S. China island]]></title>    <link>http://www.china.org.cn/environment/news/2008-09/03/content_16381162.htm</link>      <description><![CDATA[Thousands of people living on a south China island fear rising sea levels may soon take their homes and their livelihoods.]]></description>      <Author>李京荣</Author>    <category>News</category>      <pubDate>2008-09-03 14:37:10 +0800</pubDate>    </item>  <item>    <title><![CDATA[Third largest hydropower station to be fully operating]]></title>    <link>http://www.china.org.cn/environment/policies_announcements/2008-09/03/content_16381046.htm</link>      <description><![CDATA[
The Longtan hydropower station, China's third-largest, will be fully operating before the end of this year,&#160;Dai Bo, general manager of the Longtan Hydropower Development Company, said on Tuesday.
]]></description>      <Author>李京荣</Author>    <category>Policies and Announcements</category>      <pubDate>2008-09-03 14:26:23 +0800</pubDate>    </item>  <item>    <title><![CDATA[Twin giant pandas born in SW China]]></title>    <link>http://www.china.org.cn/environment/pics/2008-09/03/content_16380491.htm</link>      <description><![CDATA[A pair of twin cubs was born in the panda breeding base in Chengdu on Aug. 26. The cubs were born to a five-year-old "Fuwa", the archetype for "Jingjing the panda," one of the five Beijing Olympic mascots.]]></description>      <Author>李京荣</Author>    <category>In Pictures</category>      <pubDate>2008-09-03 13:11:24 +0800</pubDate>    </item>  <item>    <title><![CDATA[Shoppers reject 'green' plastic bags]]></title>    <link>http://www.china.org.cn/environment/health_green_living/2008-09/03/content_16380407.htm</link>      <description><![CDATA[Shoppers in Shanghai have rejected biodegradable plastic bags at local supermarkets because of their higher price compared with ordinary plastic bags.]]></description>      <Author>李京荣</Author>    <category>Health  Green Living</category>      <pubDate>2008-09-03 12:15:31 +0800</pubDate>    </item>  <item>    <title><![CDATA[US firms seek green opportunities]]></title>    <link>http://www.china.org.cn/environment/opinions/2008-09/03/content_16380318.htm</link>      <description><![CDATA[China's environmental protection and renewable energy market offers enormous opportunities for US businesses, said David Bohigian, the country's assistant commerce secretary.]]></description>      <Author>李京荣</Author>    <category>Opinions</category>      <pubDate>2008-09-03 11:40:25 +0800</pubDate>    </item>  <item>    <title><![CDATA[Chinese poultry meat makes comeback in EU]]></title>    <link>http://www.china.org.cn/environment/report_review/2008-09/03/content_16380250.htm</link>      <description><![CDATA[Chinese poultry meat will soon appear on European dinner tables under a European Union (EU) decision, effective on Tuesday, to lift a six-year import ban.]]></description>      <Author>李京荣</Author>    <category>Report  Review</category>      <pubDate>2008-09-03 11:28:15 +0800</pubDate>    </item>  <item>    <title><![CDATA[Green measures reach countryside]]></title>    <link>http://www.china.org.cn/environment/health_green_living/2008-09/03/content_16380170.htm</link>      <description><![CDATA[Last February, 58 year-old pig farmer Xie Pandi was told by local authorities in Guangyi County of suburban Wuxi that she could no longer raise pigs as she had done for the past 20 years - for environmental reasons.]]></description>      <Author>李京荣</Author>    <category>Health  Green Living</category>      <pubDate>2008-09-03 11:20:05 +0800</pubDate>    </item>  <item>    <title><![CDATA[Agencies to help poor cope with cost of climate change]]></title>    <link>http://www.china.org.cn/environment/pics/2008-09/03/content_16379979.htm</link>      <description><![CDATA[
A woman collects water from a pump in&#160;Bangladesh. Over the coming year, an approach will be tested in regions expected to be worst and soonest hit by climate change in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
]]></description>      <Author>李京荣</Author>    <category>In Pictures</category>      <pubDate>2008-09-03 11:07:00 +0800</pubDate>    </item>  <item>    <title><![CDATA[Billboards banned from old city wall in Xi'an]]></title>    <link>http://www.china.org.cn/environment/news/2008-09/03/content_16379949.htm</link>      <description><![CDATA[Advertising billboards within the old Xi'an city wall will be banned in an effort to preserve the ancient capital's splendor.]]></description>      <Author>李京荣</Author>    <category>News</category>      <pubDate>2008-09-03 11:00:23 +0800</pubDate>    </item>  <item>    <title><![CDATA[Guangdong increases sewage fees]]></title>    <link>http://www.china.org.cn/environment/health_green_living/2008-09/03/content_16379845.htm</link>      <description><![CDATA[A dual pricing system for the handling and treatment of household sewage will be introduced across Guangdong by the end of the year, its deputy governor Tong Xing said on Monday.]]></description>      <Author>李京荣</Author>    <category>Health  Green Living</category>      <pubDate>2008-09-03 10:51:02 +0800</pubDate>    </item>  <item>    <title><![CDATA[China holds 1st int'l drill to curb marine pollution]]></title>    <link>http://www.china.org.cn/environment/news/2008-09/03/content_16379363.htm</link>      <description><![CDATA[China has called for closer cooperation with its neighbors to protect the marine environment from the growing risk of oil spills due to booming transportation of the resource.]]></description>      <Author>李京荣</Author>    <category>News</category>      <pubDate>2008-09-03 10:16:49 +0800</pubDate>    </item>  <item>    <title><![CDATA[Yuanmou clay forest damaged in earthquake]]></title>    <link>http://www.china.org.cn/environment/pics/2008-09/03/content_16379250.htm</link>      <description><![CDATA[The 6.1-magnitude earthquake that jolted Sichuan Province last Saturday caused more than 30 of the pillars in the Clay Forest to collapse in Yuanmou, Yi Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province September 2.]]></description>      <Author>李京荣</Author>    <category>In Pictures</category>      <pubDate>2008-09-03 10:02:35 +0800</pubDate>    </item><!--end 1970799-0-1--><!--webbot 
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